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Re: louisgray.com: DRM = Doesn't Really Matter

andydavies — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:05:08 -0000

It doesn't matter to you because you've got a monoculture - you got a stack of products from the same supplier - whereas many people don't.

I've got an iPod, but I've also got a Sony Ericsson phone, and a SqueezeBox. They can all use use AAC but I prefer FLAC for the SqueezeBox.

I could swap the iPod and Sony Ericcson for an iPhone but as the bluetooth support in the iPhone is borked (no A2DP) I wounld't be able to play my tunes in the car - they come straight from my phone via bluetooth to the car stereo.

So DRM is a big deal to some of us - the lack of being able to by high quality music e.g. flac, online is a bigger one.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

andydavies — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:20:23 -0000

delicious and google bookmarks were the things that finally stopped me using browser bookmarks.

delicious gave me a place to store all the items I wanted to keep for reference and google bookmarks a place to store the sitesI might want to visit regularly.

I don't want everything to come into my feedreader, and I'm not sure it's the best place to store all the items I want to keep for the future - a star might mean I want to keep it, or perhaps I just want to read it later.

Re: louisgray.com: What Google Chrome Gets Right

eng1ne — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:35:55 -0000

Yeah, what's up with that? They really should be supporting their own technologies like bookmarks and tighter integration with notebook.

Re: louisgray.com: What Google Chrome Gets Right

andydavies — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:01:14 -0000

The lack of Google Bookmarks integration is the thing that's stopping me from using Chrome fulltime.

I use Google Bookmarks for sites I use regularly as it allows me to access the same set of bookmarks from any browser on nay computer, I then use delicious as a place to put all the stuff I find interesting and want to access at some point in the future.

Re: Where Google Chrome Failed To Succeed: The Integration Of Google Services

andydavies — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:26:20 -0000

Based on the comment I left on Mat Cutts blog, it appears they have gone out of their way not to tie it in

Re: Twitter kills SMS service in some countries over costs. Will someone kill SMS already?

andydavies — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:29:49 -0000

There are plenty of options for Twitter to provide an SMS service that would cover their cost and even allow them to make a profit on it - many companies in Europe offers such services (google SMS reverse billing for examples) and it doesn't require a special deal with the carriers either.

What twitter's action and this post shows is how little US companies and pundits really understand about the mobile phone market in the rest of the world.

Re: My FriendFeed Wishlist

andydavies — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:10:42 -0000

I'd agree with Duncan on the leader board, what do we need a rank of people for and on a practical level how would you rank it - which ever way you do it the noisiest rather than the most valuable/insightful are most likely to be on it

Re: The iPhone is winning at the game of Risk

parislemon — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:51 -0000

You don't Andy?

Re: I tried really I did but Gmail still sucks

andydavies — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:32:23 -0000

I get really frustrated with the labels vs folders argument as I don't see it as an either/or situation - why can't we have both?

Folders are really good for hierarchical organisation and cope with multiple levels of depth far better than labels do, but labels offer a different type of flexibility.

Although I use gmail for both my main email accounts, I'm still not completely happy with having to use only labels and would like folders too.

I'd also like search folders (I know I can do this with a greasemonkey extension) and the ability to see all unlabeled messages easily.

gmail is still a work in progress and sometimes that progress seems really slow...

Re: The iPhone is winning at the game of Risk

Jody Mitoma — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:37:38 -0000

The iPhone is expected to sell over 470 million times by the time the 3G version debuts.
That is 1/13th of the entire world.

Close enough. :)

Re: The iPhone is winning at the game of Risk

andydavies — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:58:50 -0000

To be winning the game of risk, you'd have to believe the iPhone is taking over the world though...

Re: Sharing web links and thoughts should take less clicks

andydavies — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:22:59 -0000

This is where things like feeds should come into play - I covered partial aspects of it here: http://www.andysnotebook.com/2008/04/why-isnt-t... but it's not the full picture and of course my thoughts have moved on since...

What's needed is something that can act as a master feed (to avoid the joys of synchronisation), ShareThis could be it for example, then all the other services need to pull in the feed from ShareThis and republish.

The other services would need work though e.g. in Google Reader, you'd need to be able to say that everything from a feed should automatically be shared etc.

It can't be that hard it's just that the rate of innovation amongst some of the mainstream products Reader, del.icio.us etc seems glacial compared to the likes of FriendFeed